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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 2004 06:27:19 -0600
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com>, kientzle@acm.org, das@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Environment Poisoning and login -p
Message-ID:  <20040227122718.GA46119@madman.celabo.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040227112658.GA36271@nagual.pp.ru>
References:  <403CEF67.5040004@kientzle.com> <20040226225149.GB73252@nagual.pp.ru> <403E7B4D.8030803@kientzle.com> <20040227111353.GA14777@sheol.localdomain> <20040227112658.GA36271@nagual.pp.ru>

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On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:27:00PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 05:13:53AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
> > > Instead, I've decided to follow Jacques Vidrine's
> > > suggestion of using a whitelist of environment variables
> > > that are "known-safe."
> >
> > Coming in from left field... Will there be some sort of mechanism for
> > an admin to set/modify this list?
>
> I agree we'll need it (because of different assumptions). Something like
> /etc/safe_environment file.

Whoa, Let's not complicate things unnecessarily.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org



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